Kickstarter and gaming fell in love during 2012

The phenomenon that is Kickstarter emerged as a crowdfunding source for prospective projects, and has now turned into a fully-fledged platform for launching everything from games, movies, and music projects to a banana piano and other crazy inventions.

To wrap up the events of 2012, Kickstarter put together a bunch of facts and stats regarding what happened on the dream-building website.

In terms of gaming, its been an incredibly successful year on Kickstarter. Video games had the most money pledged out of any category, ranking up US$83 million throughout the year.